One of my university colleagues just told me that if this bill passes, Walker will take away our weekends. We'll have to work all seven days of the week, because the governor obviously has no sympathy for public workers and he'll turn us into slaves of the state.

Since there is a de facto govt shut down, could the Governor say that then no state employee could be paid? No govt, no money?

On what basis? As long as the budget says there’s money, there’s money…what government shut-down has occurred, at the state level? Sure the local schools might have this option, but you’d be hard-pressed to make the case at the statewide level.

"One of my university colleagues just told me that if this bill passes, Walker will take away our weekends. We'll have to work all seven days of the week..."

Luxury. University folk will have it good. I heard that K-12 teachers will have sleep in a lake, then get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, work a twenty hour day at the school for a hundred dollars a month, come home, and then the governor will thrash them to sleep with a broken bottle, if they are lucky!

One of my university colleagues just told me that if this bill passes, Walker will take away our weekends. We'll have to work all seven days of the week, because the governor obviously has no sympathy for public workers and he'll turn us into slaves of the state.

This person’s name and address, NOW! S/he has seen the “Sooper-Sekret” Plan, of the GOP…and must die!

Does your university colleague realize that, most likely, the university could compel work and attendance on weekends now, under certain circumstances? I’d imagine you are FLSA Exempt, so they don’t even have to offer over-time, but they could compel the Janitorial Staff to work on weekends, merely granting overtime and certain amount of rest in a certain amount of time…Your Boss has this power right now, is my point…it’s just the costs, 90% of the time, far outweigh any advantages.

Luxury. University folk will have it good. I heard that K-12 teachers will have sleep in a lake, then get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, work a twenty hour day at the school for a hundred dollars a month, come home, and then the governor will thrash them to sleep with a broken bottle, if they are lucky!

LUXURY…our kill us every night and sing “Glory, Glory ‘Alleluia” over our graves, every night.

I also heard from a friend of a friend who works in an office of a guy who once dated the governor's sister that tomorrow the governor is going to request funding from the legislature to build a huge drill. Then he is going to drill a nuclear warhead into the Earth's molten core and trigger volcanic eruptions worldwide, unless the unions pay him $1,000,000.

I'll give this to that Walker Nazi/Leninist dictator fella and his forced collectivization and extermination schemes, all the victims of his gulags and concentration camps sure are having themselves a nice winter day on the steps of his Politburo.

I don't get this "trying to ram the bill through" meme. I have not seen the bill, but is it some 1000 page tome that no one has read? Seems to me everyone has read it and knows exactly what is in it. They can have debate and propose amendments all they want if they'd just show up. Do they think anyone but the true believers is buying this?

"I don't get this "trying to ram the bill through" meme. I have not seen the bill, but is it some 1000 page tome that no one has read? Seems to me everyone has read it and knows exactly what is in it. They can have debate and propose amendments all they want if they'd just show up. Do they think anyone but the true believers is buying this?"

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A couple of years back, former Gov. Doyle introduced a budget repair bill that raised taxes over $1 billion. That was introduced and passed within 24 hours...of course, the Dems had the majority.

What a perfect moment for Russ Feingold to arise from political death and lead the crowd out into Lake Mendota to drown. Now that would impress me. Otherwise, these smug teachers seem only to be wasting our time.

I dont ever recall Jesse Jackson protesting that Wisconsin has the worst racial achievment gap in the country. But its nice to know he's here for the teachers of MPS, one of the worst school districts in the state.

Stalin and Hitler...well if either one had these folks showing up to protest in downtown Berlin or Moscow they would have in Hitler's case, turned the Gestapo, SiPo and Allgemeine-SS loose, and in Stalin's case, the NKVD and arrested the whole lot of them and thrown them into prison's never to be seen again; with the exception of the organizers who would have been the stars of show trials, before they were dealt with permanently.

They insult not only those they slander, but those that suffered and died under such truly ruthless dictators.

This too shall pass. One day soon someone will introduce a tax-hike bill, and then the government will revert to being All Of Us, and anyone who doubts its absolute trustworthiness will revert to being a paranoid kook.

"Scott Stalin"... Riiiiiight. Seriously, if Gov. Walker was anything like Stalin or Hitler, these bozos would be in concentration camps. I hope this guy isn't a history teacher, for his students' sake.

I don't blame the guy for lumping all dictators together. He isn't a political science major, he just knows he hates dictators. The obvious question to ask him was why he thinks Walker is a dictator. Not even a swing and a miss, more like a called strike 3.

What was the point of interviewing the young teenager? Seemed like a waste of time.

Still waiting for some of the tough guys of Tweekhouse to take on the cop or firefighter unions. One thing to kick the sh*t out of teacher nerds--another to call for laying off cops, or reducing their benefits.

Synova you can watch John Stewart's clip of the many times that Fox folks call up the Nazi, Hitler imagery to describe liberals etc to get my ironic comment. Actually I think the cheap shots reducing political opponents to commies, or Nazis simple reveals shallow, simplistic thought of many-- whether it be Beck, or one of my colleagues.

In fact it is the issue here, Mikestein. Your yokel pals here (clients?) routinely lump together all public employee unions--but ...some have a dim realization that includes cops. Then fear kicks in. Oh, except ...our boys-in-blue. Now, taking on the cop unions would require like courage and independence. So ain't gonna happen on Aynhouse. Much easier to bully schoolteachers, who are mostly female--so also has a appeal for ...the misogynist sort of hick conservative, like you, Mikestein.

That's how the Conservative media wins, R-VOltaire--call some schoolteachers fighting for their jobs "nazis", show some ugly signs, some nerdy looking protesters, flash Jesse Jackson in Hymietown, and have GlennBeck doing a voice over, nazis, or stalinists,atheists-- pretty soon tweekers and teabugs of the US are worked up into a froth.

I heard from a co-woker who heard it second cousin in another state who once drove through Wisconsin as fast as he could that he read on the internet that Walker intended to hire a guy to hire another guy to drive a buts up the protesters with a sign on iy that says:

HEY ALL ORGANIZE FOR AMERICA PEOPLE: FREE SANDWICHES IN HERE

Then when the bus is full of protesters instead of giving them free sandwiches the driver drives the bus over a cliff but right before the bus gets to the edge of the cliff the bus driver jumps out so he lives but all the protesters in the bus die. And then that bus driver goes and gets another bus and does the same thing again over and over. And that's why Walker is worse than Hitler's flying ass monkeys.

J said... In fact it is the issue here, Mikestein. Your yokel pals here (clients?) routinely lump together all public employee unions--but ...some have a dim realization that includes cops. Then fear kicks in. Oh, except ...our boys-in-blue. Now, taking on the cop unions would require like courage and independence. So ain't gonna happen on Aynhouse. Much easier to bully schoolteachers, who are mostly female--so also has a appeal for ...the misogynist sort of hick conservative, like you, Mikestein."

I will be your huckleberry J.

Most cops I know are among the laziest people you can find. For everyone that is a hard charging crime fighter there are ten that are lazy douchenozzles. All of the guys I grew up with who became cops are already retired and most of them gamed the system to get bigger pensions. They have a tough job no doubt. As do fireman and sanitation workers. But the days of wine and roses are over. They will get their turn in the barrel soon enough.

Ann, you've got a box seat to the greatest show in the country. Hope you explained to the dude with the Stalin/SS comments that the SS were Stalin's personal guard that he selected for their great loyalty to communism....?